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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What painting did Kahlo create that was a shock to people, and brought an already-difficult subject in the foreground by painting right into the frame?

2. What did Kahlo receive that helped her to get over the loss of her body part?

3. What did Kahlo refuse to do with her paintings, despite her need to sell paintings to live?

4. Why type of movement did not catch on in Mexico despite the high hopes of Europeans?

5. What did Kahlo do a month after her divorce became final and was the same thing she did when learning of her husband's affair with her sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, how was Frida and Rivera's relationship symbolized by the house that they lived in?

2. How was Frida's approach to Surrealism different than European Surrealists?

3. What did Frida do to herself one month after her divorce with Rivera became final?

4. Why didn''t Surrealism catch on in Mexico?

5. What did the success of Rivera and Frida's marriage depend upon?

6. What did Rivera and Frida tell the press was the reason for their divorce?

7. Why did Frida have her leg amputated, and how did it affect her?

8. How did Frida's painting career begin to take off in Chapter 19?

9. Despite Frida's declining heath, how did she attend an art exhibit honoring her in 1953?

10. What affair of Rivera's particularly affected Frida in Chapter 21?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 4, Frida was involved in a horrific bus accident that altered her life forever. She was never the same after this accident and it profoundly affected the rest of her life. Analyze the bus accident that Frida was involved in and examine its affect on Frida's life. Who was with Frida on the bus and how was that person injured? What injuries did Frida sustain from the bus accident? How optimistic were the doctors on Frida's survival? How was Frida's painting affected after the bus accident?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo, many of her paintings were mentioned and analyzed. Study and compare the different paintings of Frida's that were highlighted throughout the biography. What painting was the most interesting? What painting was the most moving? What painting seemed to have no explanation? Which is the students favorite and least favorite? What painting is the most well-known by the public?

Essay Topic 3

While Rivera was working on his mural in New York, the environment became hostile. His mural was being called hostile because he wanted to pain the head of Lenin and balance it with the head of Abraham Lincoln. Evaluate the differences between communism and capitalism, two movements that were mentioned in the biography. What is communism? What is capitalism? What would Mexico and America be considered at that time? Why wouldn't a communist painting be appreciated in America? Why was Rivera for communism? What was Frida in support of?

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